SIP Revision: Vehicle Inspection/Maintenance, December 6, 2000

Revision to the State Implementation Plan for Vehicle Inspection/Maintenance adopted on December 6, 2000.

On December 6, 2000, the TCEQ adopted a revision to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) to the Vehicle Inspection/Maintenance Program as applied in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area. This page provides information on this revision to the SIP.

About the Revision

include onboard diagnostics checks and acceleration-simulation-mode test equipment and

extend the program to all eight counties in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria ozone nonattainment area.

The rules are necessary to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) sufficiently for the counties included in the HGB nonattainment area to be able to demonstrate attainment with the national ambient air quality standard for ozone.

The amendments also incorporate program changes which will apply in all I/M program areas.